A path through a cornfield is a prosaic enough thing, but one who habitually holds converse with the unseen, and ever sees it shining through the seen, beholds all things 'apparelled in celestial light,' and finds deep truths in commonplace objects.

In place of these trained servants, he introduced a number of "cornfield" negroes into his house; among them a field hand named Moses, whom he called "Bull," and of whom he was soon heard saying: "Moses goes rooting about the house like a hog."